Tony Hatch on Apple Music To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music. Biography Although Tony Hatch had success in various segments of the entertainment industry from the '60s onwards, he'll be best remembered for his work as a producer and songwriter for several British pop and rock stars in the '60s. As a staff producer at Pye Records, Hatch worked with the Searchers, Petula Clark, his wife, Jackie Trent, and on several mid-'60s singles by David Bowie, long before that singer had become famous. Hatch's productions boasted a clean and well-arranged sound that, particularly on his collaborations with Petula Clark, displayed some traces of mainstream pop and Broadway. Hatch started notching up successes as a songwriter in the early '60s, including Garry Mills' "Look for a Star." His most significant role in straight British rock music was as producer during the Searchers' 1963-1966 commercial prime, a span which saw them ring up all of their big hits.

The Searchers' records boasted well-balanced vocal harmonies and melodic guitars, sometimes played on 12-string models, that at their most progressive anticipated the jangle that would become a prime feature of folk-rock. Hatch also wrote their second British hit single, "Sugar and Spice," under the pseudonym Fred Nightingale. Hatch left his biggest imprint, however, on the big international hits by Petula Clark in the mid-'60s. These had enough mod swing to sell to a rock audience, but also enough show-bizzy horns and theatrical-type piano to bring in older listeners. The arrangements had a grand sweep that recalled stage musicals. In addition to producing, Hatch was vital to Clark as a songwriter, supplying, either as sole author or co-writer (sometimes with Clark herself), much of her best material: "Downtown," "My Love," "I Know a Place," "Call Me," and "A Sign of the Times," to name just the most celebrated examples, are all Hatch compositions. Hatch also deserves a good deal of credit for putting Clark in the international spotlight to begin with.

In 1964, Clark was on the verge of giving up on maintaining her stardom in England, in favor of focusing her efforts on France (where she was very big, and often recorded in the French language). Hatch went to France to play her some songs to consider recording for the English-speaking market, and wasn't able to come up with anything Petula liked until, out of desperation, he played a composition influenced by American soul, although he didn't think Clark was a suitable artist for it. This was, of course, "Downtown; " Clark loved it, recorded it, and her career revived in England, the single also becoming her first American hit. Hatch had a fair amount of success with a singer/songwriter who somewhat recalled Petula Clark, but who was even more in the mainstream pop realm, Jackie Trent. Trent and Hatch also began writing together, getting a number one British hit with "Where Are You Now (My Love)" in 1965.

The Hatch-Trent songwriting team couldn't come up with other big British hits for Trent, but did pen some hits for Clark, such as "Colour My World" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway." Moody balladeer Scott Walker had a British hit with Hatch-Trent's "Joanna." Hatch also recorded some duets with Trent and made some instrumental recordings under his own name, which gathered some belated hipness when they were included on some CD compilations geared toward the lounge revival crowd. Hatch had a small part in David Bowie's early career, producing three singles in 1966. This was a time at which the young Bowie, still in his teens, was still groping for a style, and mixing Hatch's orchestral predilections with whatever Bowie was coming up with was a bit of a mismatch. Hatch's stamp is particularly audible from the best track from Bowie's brief stay with Pye Records, "Can't Help Thinking About Me," which has a piano sound straight out of Petula Clark's "Downtown." In the '70s, Hatch had some more success as a producer of British hits by singers' acts not remembered much nowadays, including David Parton and Sweet Sensation.

He and Trent wrote a couple of musicals that had London runs, and eventually moved to Australia. Hatch also wrote some television music, including work for the British soap opera "Crossroads" and the theme song to "Neighbors." ~ Richie Unterberger Top Albums Tony Hatch 'Downtown', 'Call Me', 'Joanna', 'Sugar And Spice', 'I Know A Place', 'Where Are You Now (My Love)', 'You're The One', 'Forget Him', 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' . . . There is no prize for knowing that what links these great titles is that each and every one was written by Tony Hatch, the subject of this brief career summary and a likely contender for Britain's top pop composer of the 1960s. A more complete list of his hit songs would fill several paragraphs such as this. Furthermore, the addition of the unforgettable themes for such TV shows as 'Crossroads', 'Sportsnight', 'Man Alive', 'Neighbours' and 'Emmerdale Farm' make Tony Hatch one of the most broadcast composers this country has ever known. The British Bacharach, they called him. It is an epithet he surely deserves.

Like his great American contemporary, Tony Hatch was also a recording artist in his own right, as well as a highly skilled arranger, conductor, musician and record producer. Bacharach might have had Dionne Warwick but Tony Hatch had Petula Clark. Together they were a perfect team, ruling the world of international pop music for many years with a series of million-selling singles and albums. Anthony Peter Hatch was born in 1939, the first child of Cyril and Eileen Hatch. Highly musical from an early age, by 4 he was proficient on the piano and by 8 he was singing in the local church choir. His mother, also a pianist, enrolled him into the London Choir School in Bexley, Kent when he was 10. The boy Hatch was soon conducting the choir and composing hymns. His early ambition was to become a church or concert organist but as a young teenager he was bitten by the light music bug and began devouring the work of Mantovani, Melachrino and Frank Chacksfield.

He could have gone to study at The Royal Academy Of Music but on leaving school in 1955 he opted to go to work for Robert Mellin Music in the heart of London's Tin Pan Alley. As a pianist, his job included demonstrating the company's songs to singers and record producers. He also ran errands and made the tea. Before long he was writing songs and making himself known within the record business. The first Tony Hatch composition to be recorded was 'Crazy Bells', a B-side for the then unknown Gerry Dorsey (Engelbert Humperdinck) produced by Dick Rowe. When the high-powered Rowe joined the new Top Rank label, he enlisted Tony to join him as his assistant. Still a teenager, he was entrenched at a large record label. His many and varied duties included producing an album by the Band Of The Coldstream Guards. When he received his National Service call-up papers, it was that outfit's Director Of Music, Major Pope, who came to his aid. Tony Hatch spent the next three years as a musician with the Coldstream Guards, a role he was able to combine with a part-time position at Top Rank.

In 1959 he began his own recording career with a cover version of Russ Conway's piano instrumental 'Side Saddle'. He received great support for his songwriting at Top Rank; a successful early commission being 'Stork Talk', performed by the Mike Sammes Singers over the opening credits of the film of the same name. In 1960 Garry Mills' recording of Tony's composition 'Look For A Star' featured in the successful movie 'Circus Of Horrors', providing Top Rank with a Top 10 hit. Four versions of the song charted simultaneously in the USA. Tony also wrote and produced Mills' follow-up hit 'Top Teen Baby'. Tony then secured a part-time post at Pye Records who placed him on a retainer until his discharge from the Army. Before 1960 was over he had produced 'Counting Teardrops' - a #4 hit for Emile Ford and the Checkmates - and assisted his new mentor Alan Freeman with the recording of 'Sailor', a #1 for Petula Clark. 'Warpaint', a Top 5 hit the following year, marked the first of a series of charting records Tony would produce for the Brook Brothers.

Another early success was 'Messing About On The River', a turntable hit written and produced by him for Scottish folk singer Josh MacRae. Years later the song would be used in 'Wind In The Willows', the movie version of the book that had inspired Tony to write it. Tony also wrote the arrangements for such Lonnie Donegan recordings as 'The Comancheros' and 'The Party's Over'. When his three-year stint as a Coldstream Guardsman was complete Tony joined Pye as a fulltime A & R man, immediately contracting Jimmy Justice, Mark Wynter and Julie Grant to the label. Justice's 1962 hits 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling', 'Ain't That Funny' and 'Spanish Harlem' were all Tony Hatch productions, as were 'Venus In Blue Jeans' and 'Go Away Little Girl' for Wynter, while Julie Grant registered with 'Up On The Roof', the first of her trio of Hatch-produced hits, early the following year. Tony also authored songs for these and many other Pye artists, frequently using the songwriting alias Mark Anthony.

1963 also found the Philadelphia teen idol Bobby Rydell high in the charts with the Hatch-written and produced 'Forget Him'. Tony would go on to produce, arrange and write for other American stars such as Big Dee Irwin, Keely Smith, Connie Francis and Pat Boone. He also continued with his own recording career, not as a Russ Conway wannabe but as leader of the Tony Hatch Orchestra. Encouraged by Pye's MD Louis Benjamin, a TV addict, he released versions of popular television themes like 'Ghost Squad', 'Ben Casey', 'Perry Mason' and 'Out Of This World', the latter a small hit in late 1962. 'Valentino' was the first Tony Hatch composition to be released by Petula Clark. Later in 1963 he assumed the mantle of her producer, masterminding a series of dynamic French-language recordings. Petula, married to a Frenchman, was massively popular all over Europe at the time. Tony also became one of her regular songwriting partners, in addition to supplying English words for many of the numbers Petula had penned with French lyricists. A year later he made his first trip to New York in search of new material for her.

The visit inspired Tony to write the song 'Downtown'. Meanwhile, he had gone on a Merseybeat talent quest to Liverpool and signed the Searchers. As their producer he took the group to #1 in the summer of 1963 with 'Sweets For My Sweet'. Their follow-up 'Sugar And Spice' was written by Tony using the nom-de-plume Fred Nightingale. 1964 found the Searchers in the charts with the jangly 'Needles And Pins', 'Don't Throw Your Love Away', 'Someday We're Gonna Love Again', 'When You Walk In The Room' and 'What Have They Done To The Rain', confirming the group as one of the most influential of their era. Tony would remain as their producer for their entire Pye tenure. Our subject had written 'Downtown' with the American star Ben E. King in mind but when Petula Clark recorded the song she found herself instantly transformed into a huge international star, topping charts globally early in 1965.

The year also yielded the remarkable series of hits 'I Know A Place', 'You'd Better Come Home', 'Round Every Corner' and 'You're The One', establishing Tony Hatch and Petula Clark as one of the most perfect pairings the world of pop had ever known. In 1964 Tony was commissioned to write his first television theme, for the soap opera 'Crossroads'. It would become one of his best-known compositions. When asked to write a song to be featured in the Inspector Rose series 'It's Dark Outside', Tony delivered 'Where Are You Now?', with lyrics and vocals by recent Pye signee Jackie Trent. The song immediately clicked with the public and shot to #1 in the charts. 1965 also saw Tony supply the unforgettable themes for 'Sportsnight With Coleman' and 'Man Alive' and release his first album, the big budget 'The Tony Hatch Sound' featuring instrumental versions of some of his most famous songs alongside new compositions.

Petula Clark's remarkable run of hits continued with 'My Love', 'A Sign Of The Times', 'I Couldn't Live Without Your Love', 'Who Am I' and 'Colour My World', each one produced and written by Tony Hatch, the latter three with lyrics by Jackie Trent. Meanwhile, Chris Montez's cover of the Petula Clark B-side 'Call Me' had become the hit version of the song. 1966 was also marked by the release of two vastly different LPs, 'Latin Happening' by the Tony Hatch Sound, reflecting his huge affection for Brazilian music, and 'Showcase' by the Tony Hatch Singers & Swingers, an easy listening project with vocals by the Mike Sammes Singers. Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent were married the following year. When their duet 'The Two Of Us' topped the Australian charts, the pair immediately found themselves in demand on the concert and cabaret stages, adding yet another dimension to Tony's career. He and Jackie, now known affectionately by the public as 'Mr & Mrs Music', also wrote Petula Clark's 1967 hits 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' and 'The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener'.

1968 proved to be particularly prolific with the release of the Tony Hatch Sound's 'Beautiful In The Rain' album, the 'Latin Velvet' and 'Cool Latin Sounds' long-players - both credited to the Tony Hatch Orchestra - plus 'The Two Of Us' and 'Live For Love', two collections of Tony and Jackie duets. Other memorable Hatch compositions of the year included Petula Clark's 'Don't Give Up' and 'American Boys', 'Memories Of Summer' (the theme for TV's 'Love Story') and Scott Walker's Top 10 hit 'Joanna', a very rare opportunity for Tony to work away from the Pye label. 'The Doctors', 'Codename', 'Backs To The Land', 'The Champions', 'Hadleigh' and 'Who-Dun-It' of the following year established Tony Hatch as an undisputed leader in the world of television themes. He saw out the 1960s with the release of the Tony Hatch Orchestra's 'Brasilia Mission' album and the 'Together Again' set by he and Jackie. Following a decade as a Pye staffer, Tony spent the 1970s as an independent operator.

His album releases continued with 'Sounds Of The Seventies' in 1970, his Burt Bacharach tribute 'What The World Needs Now' the following year, 'Hits Symphonic' in 1972 and 1974's 'Hit The Road To Themeland', culminating with the 'Ebb Tide' long-player of 1976, a TSOP-styled disco set credited to Love Sounds. Interspersed between these were the Tony & Jackie LPs 'Words & Music', 'Two For The Show' and 'Opposite Your Smile'. But Tony is best-remembered by many for the regular appearances as the somewhat sardonic panellist on TV's 'New Faces' that earned him the soubriquet 'The Hatchet Man'. He also returned to the charts as the producer of David Parton and the soul group Sweet Sensation, in addition to composing the themes for 'Emmerdale Farm' and 'Mr & Mrs' ('Be Nice To Each Other'). The 1970s also saw Tony and Jackie diversify into the world of musical theatre.

The first of these projects, 'The Card', based on Arnold Bennett's novel, with book by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, ran in London's West End with Jim Dale and Millicent Martin in the starring roles. An original cast album was released in 1975. A rewritten version of the show, starring Peter Duncan and Hayley Mills, played the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in the 1990s and spawned a new cast album. The second Hatch/Trent musical was 'Rock Nativity', with book and lyrics by David Wood. Initiated and produced by Cameron Macintosh, it first played in Newcastle. An updated version of the show toured nationally in 1976 and was broadcast nationally by Scottish TV. A full-length concert version was also recorded at the Cork Opera House for transmission by RTE. After delivering the score for the movie 'Sweeney 2' in 1978, Tony left the UK for a four-year residency in Dublin where he and Jackie hosted their own TV series 'Words And Music' and 'It's A Musical World'.

He remained in the public eye by supplying the themes for the TV series 'Seagull Island' and 'Airline' before moving to Australia in 1982. He has been associated with the Variety Club since 1982, serving as president of the Australian branch and as International President. It was while down under that Tony and Jackie wrote what might be their most famous composition, the theme for the TV soap opera 'Neighbours'. The couple were the subjects of 'This Is Your Life' in 1991 but separated in 1995, divorcing 7 years later. Recently, Tony Hatch found himself back in the public consciousness and the charts when the title track of his 'Sounds Of The Seventies' album was sampled and revamped as 'Before You Leave' by Pepe Deluxe for the Levi's Engineered Jeans ad campaign. Now resident in sunny Menorca in the Balearic Islands with new love Maggie at his side, and with the music he created in his heyday sounding as vital as it ever did, we find Tony Hatch eager to return to the contemporary recording medium. Let's hope that happens.

With thanks to Sam Szczepanski, Paul Bevoir, Kieron Tyler, Malcolm Baumgart, Richard Harries and the one and only Tony Hatch. 'Call Me: The Songs Of Tony Hatch' CD review: Legendary Singer And Songwriter Jackie Trent Dies Aged 74 By Yolanda Zaw - 23/03/2015 Singer-songwriter Jackie Trent, who wrote the theme song to popular Australian soap Neighbours has died at the age of 74. The British songstress, who also wrote for Frank Sinatra and Petula Clark, died in hospital in Menorca yesterday after a long illness, her spokesman said. She hit the top of the charts as a singer in 1965 with Where Are You Now (My Love). Musical legend: Jackie Trent (right), who was married to Tony Hatch (left) has died at the age of 74 A statement released on her official website confirmed the sad news. ‘On Saturday 21st March – Jackie Trent the singer and songwriter passed away at 10.30am in hospital in Ciutadella, Menorca after a long illness.

‘Her husband Colin and her children Michelle & Darren were by her bedside.’ Her son, Darren Hatch has paid a tribute to his beloved mother on Twitter, along with a host of well-known faces from the soap and music world. ‘To the world she was Jackie Trent, to my sister and I she was simply Mum. Where are you now my love?xxx #jackietrent,’ Darren’s Twitter post said. UK soap actress Debbie Arnold also paid her respects to the star online. ‘Devastated at the news Jackie Trent died. My mum was her and Tony’s agent for years. All part of my childhood. Tragic,’ she said. Born Yvonne Burgess in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, in 1940, Trent began her career as a child, singing in British Legion and working men’s clubs. Meet the neighbours: The original cast of Neighbours is pictured above, including Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan She won her first recording contract in the early 1960s in London, where she met future husband Tony Hatch at an audition.

On her website she said: ‘In 1955 I abandoned school, packed a single suitcase and, clutching my precious music case, I caught the train to London: alone; no agent, no contacts and no work. ‘I soon found work; my new employers even took me into their home, treating me as a daughter. Some of the London underworld became my fans and watched over my safety; the KRAYS would sometimes escort me to the clubs and theatres where I worked, showering me with teddy bears (when I was so desperate for cash, but too polite to say.)’ Trent and Hatch wrote more than 400 songs, with Jack Jones, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Wilson, Des O’Connor, Val Doonican, Vikki Carr, and Dean Martin among other stars using their work. Trent scored her first hit with ‘Where Are You Now’ in 1965, which featured in the popular TV series It’s Dark Outside. The track was written by Trent and Tony Hatch. ‘Where Are You Now’ reached number one in the UK charts in May 1965, taking out the top spot for one week.

In 1966, a song entitled ‘I Couldn’t Live without You’, was reportedly written about Trent and Hatch’s love affair and soon after its release they went public with their relationship. Just one year later, the couple married and had two children, Darren and Michelle, together. They wrote the theme tune to Neighbours while based in Australia in the early 1980s. The soap was originally planned to be called Ramsay St, however when the couple wrote the song ‘Neighbours’, producers decided to change the original name of the show. Speaking to The West Australian in 2013, Trent said she penned the distinctive tune in order to differentiate the song from the Coronation St. theme tune. ‘We wrote the song as ‘Neighbours’ because we said Ramsay Street was too close to Coronation Street, which was the major soap in Britain,’ she said. Hatch told the newspaper that they wrote the song in just one day and the producer’s instantly warmed to it. ‘We called in Barry Crocker at about 10pm to put his voice on it and it was on the producer’s desk by 10am the following morning.

And they loved it, so the series was then called Neighbours,’ Hatch said. Loving mother: Trent’s son, Darren, has paid a touching tribute to his mother on Twitter In 2004 Trent made a brief return to the stage in popular musical High Society. She also spent much of her later life touring around the UK. She married Colin Gregory in November 2005, and the couple lived in Spain. According to the BBC, a musical based on Trent’s life – based on her yet-to-be published autobiography – is due to open at Stoke-on-Trent Repertory Theatre in May 2015. Musicians who died 2015 Tweet 15th Jan 2015, American record producer, singer and musician Kim Fowley died of bladder cancer in Hollywood, California at the age of 75. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s. He wrote 'Nut Rocker' for B. Bumble and the Stingers, which became a No.1 hit in the UK in 1962.

12th Feb 2015, Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, died aged 55 following a heart attack in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. His band, Visage, formed in 1979 and their breakthrough single, 'Fade To Grey', peaked at No.8 in the UK in 1981. 16th Feb 2015, American singer, songwriter, actress and activist, Lesley Gore, who had the 1963 US No.1 & UK No.9 single 'It's My Party', died at the NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City, of lung cancer. 11th March 2015, Jimmy Greenspoon, keyboardist with Three Dog Knight died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 67. During the course of their career, Three Dog Knight had 21 top 40 hits, including three No.1 singles. 15th March 2015, Mike Porcaro bassist with Toto died following a battle Lou Gehrig's Disease.

He was the middle brother of Toto members Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro. Toto who formed in 1978 are best known for such classic rock hits as 'Hold the Line,' 'Rosanna' and 'Africa' and won an Album of the Year Grammy for 1982's Toto IV. 16th March 2015, Andy Fraser songwriter and bass guitarist with Free died in California aged 62. The London-born musician became a founding member of the British group when he was just 15 and went on to write most of the material with Free lead singer Paul Rodgers, including Free's 1970 hit 'All Right Now'. 20th March 2015, American drummer A. J. Pero died from an apparent heart attack. He was a member of Twisted Sister and Adrenaline Mob. Adrenaline Mob's band members attempted but failed to wake Pero on their tour bus traveling from Baltimore to Poughkeepsie. 21st March 2015, English singer-songwriter, and actress Jackie Trent died in hospital, aged 74, in Minorca, Spain, after a long illness.

Her 1966 hit, 'I Couldn't Live Without Your Love' was inspired by the ongoing affair between Trent and record producer Tony Hatch, who she later married. The couple went on to write songs for Scott Walker, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Wilson, Des O'Connor, Val Doonican, Shirley Bassey, Vikki Carr, and Dean Martin. 23rd March 2015, British artist Lil' Chris was found dead in Suffolk at the age of 24. Chris Hardman first rose to fame on the UK reality show Rock School in 2006 when he was just 15 years old. He later released a hit single, 'Checkin' It Out,' which reached No.3 on the UK singles chart. 1st April 2015, Cynthia Lennon, first wife of The Beatles' John Lennon died at her home in Spain following a short battle with cancer. At the height of The Beatles' early success she was, at the insistence of the band's management, kept in the background so their legions of female fans were not aware of her existence. The couple divorced in 1968 after Cynthia discovered her husband's affair with Yoko Ono.

3rd April 2015, Bob Burns, the American drummer who was in the original line-up of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a car crash in Georgia when his car struck a mailbox and a tree with the front of the vehicle. Burns was the only occupant of the car and was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. He appeared on the band's 'Sweet Home Alabama,' 'Gimme Three Steps' and 'Free Bird.' 14th April 2015, American R&B and soul singer Percy Sledge died of liver cancer at his home in Baton Rouge aged 73. The inspiration behind his 1966 US No.1 hit 'When a Man Loves a Woman', came when Sledge's girlfriend left him for a modelling career after he was laid off from a construction job in late 1965. 28th April 2015, Jack Ely died at the age of 71 after a long illness. The Kingman singer's hit 'Louie Louie' reached the top of the charts in 1963 and sparked an FBI investigation into whether or not its lyrics were obscene.

30th April 2015, Ben E King, (Benjmin Earl Nelson), soul and R&B singer with The Drifters, died at the Hackensack University Medical Center at the age of 76. The Driffters had the 1960 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Save The Last Dance For Me', and King scored the the 1987 UK No.1 solo single 'Stand By Me', (first released in 1961). 6th May 2015, British-Jamaican singer and songwriter Errol Brown, best known as the frontman of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate died of liver cancer at his home in the Bahamas. Their hits included 'You Sexy Thing', 'So You Win Again' and 'Brother Louie'. His break in music came in 1969 when he recorded a version of 'Give Peace a Chance' with some friends. Unable to change the lyrics without John Lennon's permission, he sent a copy to his record label, Apple, and the song was released with Lennon's approval. 14th May 2015, Blues singer, songwriter and guitarist B.B.

King died in his sleep aged 89 from a series of small strokes caused by type 2 diabetes. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential blues guitarists of all time, Rolling Stone magazine placed him behind only Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. 30th May 2015, Jeremy Brown, guitarist for Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, died of unknown causes at the age of 34. Brown began playing with the Stone Temple Pilots singer in 2008. 19th June 2015, Blues musician Wendell Holmes died aged 71. He released 12 albums as part of The Holmes Brothers, a family band that included his siblings Sherman and Willie. During their career, the brothers played with many artists including Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel, Rosanne Cash, Levon Helm and Willie Nelson. 27th June 2015, Chris Squire, the bass guitarist and co-founder of 1970s British progressive rock band Yes, died at the age of 67 after battling leukemia.

He was the only member to appear on each of their 21 studio albums, released from 1969 to 2014. 30th July 2015, American country music singer, Lynn Anderson, died aged 67. The multi-award-winning singer scored the 1970 US No.3 & 1971 UK No.3 single 'Rose Garden', and charted 12 No.1, 18 Top 10, and more than 50 Top 40 hits. Anderson was the first female country artist to win the American Music Award (in 1974), as well as the first to headline and sellout Madison Square Garden that same year. 1st Aug 2015, English singer, actress and entertainer Cilla Black died at her holiday home near Marbella, Spain, aged 72.

Along with a successful recording career in the 1960s and early 1970s, Black hosted her own eponymous variety show, Cilla, for the BBC between 1968 and 1976 and later shows such as Blind Date (1985ï¿½2003) and Surprise Surprise (1984ï¿½2001). 4th Aug 2015, Influential country producer Billy Sherrill, who worked with artists like George Jones, Charlie Rich, and Tammy Wynette and is known for pioneering the ï¿½countrypolitanï¿½ sound, died after a short illness at the age of 78. Sherrill also co-wrote many hit songs, including 'Stand by Your Man' (written with Tammy Wynette). 14th Aug 2015, Jazz Summers, manager of bands such as Wham!, Snow Patrol, Scissor Sisters and The Verve, died from lung cancer. He co-managed Wham!

and is credited with the duo breaking into the United States market in 1985 and to go onto to become the first western pop group to tour China. 4th Sept 2015, Cuban-born Jamaican ska and reggae trombonist Rico Rodriguez died aged 80. He recorded with many artists including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd "Matador" Daley. He was known as one of the first and most distinguished ska artists, and from the early 1960s performed and recorded in Britain, with the Specials, Jools Holland, Paul Young, and others. 13th Sept 2015, Gary Richrath, lead guitarist and songwriter for REO Speedwagon died at the age of 65. Richrath recorded 12 albums with the band before leaving in 1989 and released his own solo album in 1992. 8th Oct 2015, Scottish singer-songwriter Jim Diamond died at the age of 64.

His first hit was 'I Won't Let You Down' (1982), as the lead singer in the trio PhD, and the solo hit 'I Should Have Known Better', a UK No.1 hit in 1984. 10th Oct 2015, American tenor saxophone player Steve Mackay who worked with the Stooges, Violent Femmes, Snakefinger, Commander Cody and others died from sepsis at a hospital in Daly City, California at the age of 66. 11th Oct 2015, Camera Obscura keyboardist Carey Lander died from osteosarcoma, a rare form of blood cancer aged 33. The Scottish indie pop band's first album, Biggest Bluest Hi Fi, was released in 2001. 10th Nov 2015, Allen Toussaint the American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B died aged 77 while on tour in Madrid, Spain. 11th Nov 2015, Phil Taylor better known as "Philthy Animal" Taylor and drummer with Motorhead died aged 61.

He was in the The classic mark IV Motï¿½rhead line-up of Lemmy, Taylor, and Fast Eddie Clarke who recorded ten studio albums and the live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith. 3rd Dec 2015, American musician and singer-songwriter Scott Weiland died aged 48. He was found in cardiac arrest on his tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota, just before he was scheduled to go on stage with his band The Wildabouts. He was 48 years old. Weiland was best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots from 1986 to 2013, as well as Velvet Revolver from 2003 to 2008. 27th Dec 2015, Singer Stevie Wright died aged 68. During 1964ï¿½69 he was lead singer of Sydney-based band the Easybeats, who had the 1966 world-wide hit 'Friday on My Mind'. The Easybeats were widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s.

28th Dec 2015, Lemmy lead vocalist and bassist with Motorhead died at his home in Los Angeles, California, four days after his 70th birthday following a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. 28th Dec 2015, John Bradbury, the longtime drummer for the British band the Specials, died aged 62. He joined the band in 1979 after the original drummer left and was made a permanent member after playing at the recording session for the single 'Gangsters.' 31st Dec 2015, American singer, songwriter Natalie Cole died aged 65 due to congestive heart failure. The daughter of Nat 'King' Cole, she had the 1989 UK No.2 single 'Miss You Like Crazy', and the hits 'This Will Be', 'Inseparable', and 'Our Love'. In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole numerous Grammy Awards.

MORE FROM THIS DAY IN MUSIC See music landmarks in our free iPhone and iPad app - Rocking All Over The World Obituary: Jackie Trent, singer and songwriter - The Scotsman Obituary: Jackie Trent, singer and songwriter Jackie Trent: Singer-songwriter who created the iconic theme tune to Australian soap Neighbours. Picture: Getty BRIAN PENDREIGH Have your say Born: 6 September 1940, in Newcastle–under–Lyme. Died: 21 March, 2015, on Minorca, aged 74 As A singer Jackie Trent knocked the Beatles off the No 1 spot in the singles chart back in the mid-1960s. But it was as a songwriter, in collaboration with real-life partner Tony Hatch, that she enjoyed her greatest and most enduring success. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Bassey, Val Doonican, Scott Walker and many others recorded Hatch-Trent songs. The couple also wrote the theme song for the Australian soap opera Neighbours, and in so doing persuaded the producers to change the name of the show.

The original intention was to call the show Ramsay Street, but Trent’s lyric “Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours” led to a change of mind and the show itself was renamed Neighbours before it first went out in 1985. An international hit, the show made a star of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and many others and is still going strong after 30 years and more than 7,000 episodes. And it still uses the same Hatch-Trent theme song, although it has been rearranged in several different versions and re-recorded by several different singers over the years. The daughter of a coal miner, Jackie Trent was born Yvonne Burgess in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire in 1940. She made her mark on local talent shows as a young girl, ­appeared in pantomime and was a semi-professional singer by the age of 11. In her early teens she established a following and was earning good money performing in British Legion and local working men’s clubs, where she was styled as “the Vera Lynn of the Potteries”. At 15 she left school, packed a single suitcase and hopped on a train to London, hoping to find fame and fortune.

She adopted the name Jackie Trent, Jackie being considered a more contemporary name than Yvonne and Trent reflecting her roots. Again she acquired a following on the club circuit and counted the Kray twins among her fans, recalling that they would sometimes escort her to venues and “showered” her with teddy bears as presents. She toured Europe and beyond and sang for British troops in Malta, Cyprus, Aden and Kenya. She also sang for United States troops and met the young Elvis Presley during his brief stint in the Army. However, her first few singles failed to make the charts and an assignment to write and record a song that would simply feature in a scene in the drama series It’s Dark Outside did not suggest that her chart fortunes were about to change dramatically. However, Hatch, who wrote the music, had enjoyed success with Petula Clark, most notably with Downtown, which was high in the charts as he got to work on the new tune. Trent wrote the lyrics for the new song, entitled Where Are You Now, recorded it and went off on a lengthy tour of South Africa, without thinking too much about it. The show was duly broadcast and shops were suddenly swamped with requests for the record.

It knocked the Beatles’ Ticket to Ride off the Number One spot in May 1965. The success of the song led to further collaborations with Trent as composer and Hatch as lyricist, including the follow-up single When Summertime is Over. But it proved a major disappointment, barely scraping into the Top 40. Trent said later that she initially disliked Hatch. He was married when they met, but the two became lovers and eventually husband and wife, after he divorced his first wife. Their initial affair inspired the song I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love, which was a Top Ten hit for Petula Clark in 1966, and Trent and Hatch subsequently topped the Australian charts with their own recording of the duet The Two of Us. They acquired the nickname “Mr and Mrs Music”. However, in the UK Trent never repeated the success as a singer that she had enjoyed with Where Are You Now.

In the late 1960s she performed in the musical Nell!, in a tour that included the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, and in the 1970s she and Hatch wrote stage musicals The Card, which was produced in London’s West End, and Rock Nativity, produced by Cameron Mackintosh. The latter was staged at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, during the Christmas 1975-76 season and broadcast by Scottish Television. Trent was a Stoke City fan and she and Hatch wrote a song called We’ll Be With You when Stoke reached the English League Cup final in 1972. It was recorded by the players and fans and released under the club’s nickname The Potters. It made the Top 40, Stoke beat Chelsea in the final and the song is still played at Stoke home games. In the early 1980s Trent and Hatch moved to Australia, which was how they ended up doing the theme song for Neighbours. Hatch had some experience with theme tunes for soap operas, having composed the theme for Crossroads two decades earlier. Trent later recalled that the Neighbours theme song was written and recorded in a single day.

Trent said: “We wrote the song as Neighbours because we said Ramsay Street was too close to Coronation Street… We called in Barry Crocker at about 10pm to put his voice on it and it was on the producer’s desk by 10am the following morning. And they loved it. So the series was then called Neighbours.” Latterly Trent and Hatch lived on the Spanish island of Minorca. They separated in the 1990s and Trent remarried. Recently she had been working on a musical based on her own life and it is due to premiere in Stoke later this year. She is survived by her second husband, Colin Gregory, and by her children, Michelle and Darren. HOME - trentmemorial HOME Colour My World the Official Website of Jackie Trent About Jackie Shop Jackie was born in Staffordshire. She possessed an amazing singing voice and together with Tony Hatch wrote the soundtrack to so many peoples lives over the last 50 years Jackie preferred the word friends rather than fans.

She always loved chatting to them personally and loved reading their stories and memories We have a selection of memorabilia, books, CD's and DVD's for you to peruse and buy online News It's the Autobiography they tried to stop! 2016 will finally see the autobiography that Jackie had spent the last few years writing finally released. She spent many hours with Colin and her personal diaries from the years finally putting in print in her own words the stories that shaped her life (not all of them pleasant). Because of the content this is why this has taken so long to produce. Jackie wanted this story to be released, although other didn't, to explain some of the unexplained. There are passage written in Jackies own hand together with lots of pictures from a life in the public eye. Press the memorial picture to see more details and read some of the excerpts. Further details of publication date will be on the website soon.

SongHall - Songwriters Hall of Fame 2013 Nominees For Induction Announced Oct 11 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame 2013 Nominees For Induction Announced New York, NY – October 11, 2012 – Jimmy Webb, Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced the slate of 2013 nominees for induction. The organization, which is dedicated to recognizing the work and lives of those composers and lyricists who create popular music around the world, holds annual elections to determine those who will make up the roster of inductees for the following year. Eligible voting members will have until December 17th, 2012 to turn in ballots with their choices of three nominees from a non-performer and two from a performer category. For information with which to register or renew as a voting member before November 19th in order to participate in this election, please go to songhall.org/join . The 2013 Annual Awards Gala will take place at the New York Marriott Marquis on Thursday, June 13th.

The nominees are: (*Note that the five songs listed after each nominee are merely a representative sample of their extensive catalogs) Non-Performer Songwriters Bobby Braddock Bobby Braddock served as Marty Robbins’ pianist, with Robbins returning the favor by recording Braddock’s “While You’re Dancing” for the songwriter’s first chart record in 1966. Braddock’s first No. 1 hit came two years later with Tammy Wynette’s classic “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” and he would go on to score more hits for Wynette and then husband George Jones, including “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” the Country Music Association Song of the Year in 1980 and 1981 and considered by many to be the greatest country music song. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1981, Braddock was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011.

Key songs in the Braddock catalog include “Would You Catch A Falling Star?” “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” “Golden Ring,” “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and “Time Marches On.” Don Covay A Pioneer Award recipient from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Don Covay took his beginnings as a performer in a family gospel quartet to a minor career as an r&b artist in the late 1950s and early ‘60s. But his big success came with his songwriting: Chubby Checker had a No. 1 hit with his “Pony Time,” Aretha Franklin won a Grammy with his “Chain Of Fools,” and his hit “Mercy Mercy” was notably covered by The Rolling Stones. Steppenwolf, Bobby Womack, Wilson Pickett and The Small Faces are among other artists who have scored with songs by Don Covay. Key songs in the Covay catalog include “Chain Of Fools,” “Sookie, Sookie,” “Mercy, Mercy,” “Tonight’s The Night” and “Seesaw.” Randy Goodrum Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Randy Goodrum was the 1981 ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year.

But he had already made a big name for himself with hits like Anne Murray’s much-covered signature 1978 pop chart-topping “You Needed Me.” Numerous other pop and country hits were forthcoming, most notably Steve Perry’s “Oh Sherrie” and DeBarge’s “Who’s Holding Donna Now” on the pop side, and Dottie West’s “Lesson In Leavin’” and the Kenny Rogers-Dottie West duet “What Are We Doin’ In Love” on the country side. Key songs in the Goodrum catalog include “You Needed Me.” “Bluer Than Blue.” “I’ll Be Over You,” “Foolish Heart” and “Oh Sherrie.” Tony Hatch English songwriter/pianist/arranger/producer Tony Hatch wrote Garry Mills’ 1960 U.K. and U.S. hit “Look For A Star,” then went on to produce and write for numerous hit artists on both sides of the Atlantic including Bobby Rydell (“Forget Him”) and The Searchers (“Sugar And Spice”).

Most significant was his producer/songwriter relationship with Petula Clark, which yielded such classic British Invasion pop hits as “Downtown” and “I Know A Place.” He wrote more songs with his then wife Jackie Trent (as a performing act they were called “Mr. & Mrs. Music”) and also excelled in composing TV themes, most notably the Australian soap opera “Neighbours.” Key songs in the Hatch catalog include “Downtown,” “Don’t Sleep In The Subway,” “I Know A Place,” “My Love” and “Sign Of The Times.” Holly Knight After finding some success in the rock bands Spider (also featuring Late Show With David Letterman drummer Anton Fig) and Device, she made it big as a songwriter, joining with Mike Chapman in penning Tina Turner’s hit “Better Be Good To Me” and Pat Benatar’s “Love Is A Battlefield”—both Grammy winners.

Turner ended up recording nine of her songs, also including the chart-topping “The Best,” while Benatar hit, too, with her “Invincible.” Numerous other Knight-written hits range from Divinyls’ “Pleasure And Pain” to Scandal’s “The Warrior;” she has also written for Heart, Aerosmith, Bonnie Tyler and Rod Stewart, and recently wrote and produced for Tony Bennett’s daughter Antonia Bennett. Key songs in the Knight catalog include “Love Is A Battlefield,” “Simply The Best,” “Better Be Good To Me,” “Obsession” and “The Warrior.” Dennis Lambert/Brian Potter The versatile songwriting-producing team of Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter first found success in 1969 with their antiwar hit for Coven, “One Tin Soldier,” which graced the soundtrack of The Legend Of Billy Jack.

They stayed on the charts throughout the ‘70s, frequently scoring with pop and country hits like Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds’ “Don’t Pull Your Love,” the Grass Roots’ “Two Divided By Love” and Glen Campbell’s “Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.).” Their work with the Four Tops yielded the legendary vocal group’s first post-Motown hits “Keeper Of The Castle,” “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)” and “Are You Man Enough.” Key songs in the Lambert/Potter catalog include “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got),” “ Don’t Pull Your Love,” “It Only Takes A Minute,” “One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)” and “Country Boy (You’ve Got Your Feet In L.A.).” Bob McDill After scoring minor hits in the late 1960s for Perry Como and Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Bob McDill found his place in country music, especially with Don Williams. His big hits for Williams included “Say It Again,” “She Never Knew Me” and “Amanda,” which was also a major hit for Waylon Jennings.

The prodigious writer, who wrote one song a week for 30 years, also placed major hits for the likes of Anne Murray, The Kendalls, Alan Jackson and Bobby Bare, who recorded a full album of McDill songs entitled Me And McDill. The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee’s catalog includes over 30 No. 1 hits, and his shelf displays numerous BMI Songwriter of the Year trophies. Key songs in the McDill catalog include “Amanda,” “Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On,” “Gone Country,” “It Must Be Love” and “Song Of The South.” Rick Nowels A prolific songwriter since the age of 13, Grammy/Ivor Novello Award winning songwriter/producer Rick Nowels has co-written over 60 Top 20 singles beginning with his first #1 global hit “Heaven is a Place on Earth” by Belinda Carlisle. His breakthrough came when Stevie Nicks and Jimmy Iovine heard his songs and brought him in to work on Stevie’s Rock A Little album.

Rick’s career has been full of non-stop hits ever since, including songs written with Madonna, John Legend, Dido, Cee lo, Nelly Furtado, Santana, New Radicals, Jewel, Lana Del Rey, Lykke Li, Jason Mraz, Sia and Stevie Nicks. Key songs in the Nowels catalog include “Heaven Is A Place on Earth,” “White Flag,” “You Get What You Give,” “Circle In The Sand” and “Game of Love.” Linda Perry Linda Perry was the lead singer and main songwriter for 4 Non Blondes prior to establishing herself as a major songwriter and producer. She wrote and produced such hits as Pink’s “Get The Party Started” and Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”—both chart-toppers. Other top artists whose catalogs include Perry compositions are Gwen Stefani (her hit “What Are You Waiting For?”), Courtney Love, Celine Dion and Alicia Keys. Most recently she has fronted the band Deep Dark Robot and published a set of acoustic cover songs recorded with her iPhone. Key songs in the Perry catalog include “Get The Party Started,” “Beautiful,” “Hurt,” “What You Waiting For?” and “What’s Up?” P.F.

Sloan/Steve Barri The songwriting team of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri was one of the most successful of the pop-rock scene based in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. Barry McGuire’s hit recording of their apocalyptic “Eve Of Destruction” was a signpost for a generation and its era. But Sloan/Barri’s lighter fare was equally impressive and significant, and included songs for The Turtles (“You Baby” and “Let Me Be”), Herman’s Hermits ("A Must To Avoid” and “Hold On!"), The Grass Roots (“Where Were You When I Needed You”) and Johnny Rivers (“Secret Agent Man”).

Key songs in the Sloan/Barri catalog include “Secret Agent Man,” “Eve Of Destruction,” “Where Were You When I Needed You,” “You Baby (Nobody But You)” and “A Must To Avoid.” JD Souther Singer, songwriter and actor JD Souther is justly celebrated for co-writing such Eagles hits as “Best Of My Love,” “Heartache Tonight” and “New Kid In Town.” He produced Linda Ronstadt’s Don’t Cry Now album, penned songs for her and sang with her on “Hasten Down The Wind,” “Prisoner In Disguise” and “Sometimes You Can’t Win.” He has written for other topflight artists including Bonnie Raitt, Don Henley and George Strait, and had his own big hits with “You’re Only Lonely” and his collaboration with James Taylor, “Her Town Too.” Key songs in the Souther catalog include “Faithless Love,” “Best Of My Love,” “You’re Only Lonely,” “Heartache Tonight” and “New Kid In Town.” Rod Temperton Oscar-nominated (for The Color Purple’s “Miss Celie’s Blues”) English songwriter/producer Rod Temperton is best known for the songs he wrote for Michael Jackson, including “Rock With

 You” and “Thriller.” But he was also a member of the funk/disco band Heatwave, for which he supplied the million-selling U.S.

hits “Boogie Nights” and “Always And Forever.” Among the numerous artists who have also recorded Temperton tunes are James Ingram, Michael McDonald, Rufus, Donna Summer, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, Patti Austin and Karen Carpenter. Key songs in the Temperton catalog include “Always And Forever,” “Give Me The Night,” “Rock With You,” “Yah Mo B There” and “Boogie Nights.” Performer/Songwriters Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie/Stevie Nicks (p/k/a Fleetwood Mac) Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and Steve Nicks were together in Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, when the band enjoyed its greatest commercial success and released Rumours (1977)--one of the all-time biggest-selling albums. The classic hits “Rhiannon,” “Say You Love Me,” “Go Your Own Way, “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” “Tusk,” “Hold Me” and “Gypsy” all came from this period.

All three writers went on to solo success, as well as induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—with Fleetwood Mac—in 1998. Key songs in the Buckingham/McVie/Nicks catalog include “Go Your Own Way,” “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” “Rhiannon,” “Over My Head” and “Dreams.” Jimmy Buffett Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Jimmy Buffett has carved out a unique niche as a singer-songwriter thanks to hits like “Margaritaville,” the 1977 hit that is his signature. The easy-going, laidback tune exemplified a sunny Gulf Coast style that has enamored him to millions of “Parrotheads”—the collective name of his devoted fan base.

They turn out ecstatically at concert performances that feature famed parrothead classics also including “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” and “A Pirate Looks at Forty.” Key songs in the Buffett catalog include “(Wastin’ Away In) Margaritaville,” “Cheeseburger In Paradise,” “Come Monday,” “Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes” and “Fins.” Elvis Costello One of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of the modern rock era, Elvis Costello burst upon the scene in 1977 at the height of the New Wave and has been writing songs—many of which have been covered by artists from Linda Ronstadt to Johnny Cash--at full throttle ever since. But rock is only one of the many genres he has conquered. The indefatigable Costello has also written country and classical music while collaborating with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney and earning his way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Key songs in the Costello catalog include “Accidents Will Happen,” “Alison,” “Veronica,” “Pump It Up” and “Watching The Detectives.” Ray Davies Ray Davies is the lead singer and chief songwriter for the Kinks, which was one of the seminal bands of the 1960s British rock invasion. He authored widely-ranging rock song classics like “You Really Got Me” and “Lola” in a historic career commemorated in 1990 by the group’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Davies has also written and performed as a solo artist, mixing Kinks material with his own along with stories from his written works in a Storyteller format. Key songs in the Davies catalog include “Lola,” “Tired of Waiting,” “Well-Respected Man,” “Come Dancing” and “You Really Got Me.” Vince Gill One of the most celebrated songwriters—and artists—in country music history, Vince Gill first came to fame as songwriter and performer in Pure Prairie League.

After going solo as a country artist, he broke ground in winning three straight CMA Awards for Song of the Year from 1991 to 1993: “When I Call Your Name,” “Look At Us” and “I Still Believe In You” (he won it again in 1996 for “Go Rest High On That Mountain”). Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005, Gill, who was also named the Nashville Songwriters Association International’s Songwriter/Artist of the Decade for 1990-1999 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007, has had his songs covered by many others ranging from Alabama to Rosanne Cash.

Key songs in the Gill catalog include “Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away,” “I Still Believe In You,” “One More Last Chance,” “If You Ever Have Forever In Mind” and “Never Knew Lonely.” Mick Jones/Lou Gramm (p/k/a Foreigner) Foreigner’s songwriting partnership of England’s Mick Jones and America’s Lou Gramm resulted in immense album sales and huge hits during the 1970s and ‘80s. Their songwriting prowess was proven from the outset with the self-titled 1977 debut album, which yielded the hits “Feels Like The First Time,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long, Long Way From Home.” Hits like “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Urgent” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You” followed, and they reached No. 1 in 1985 with the massive gospel-inspired “I Want To Know What Love Is.” Key songs in the Jones/Gramm catalog include “Juke Box Hero,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” “Cold As Ice,” Hot Blooded” and “Double Vision.” BB King A blues legend as a guitarist and singer, B.B.

King is also one of the genre’s finest songwriters. His key credits include “Sweet Sixteen,” “Rock Me Baby” and the revealing—and funny—“Nobody Loves Me But My Mother.” He also wrote one of his signature songs, the self-explanatory “Why I Sing The Blues.” Key songs in the King catalog include “Bad Luck,” “Lucille,” “Rock Me Baby,” “Woke Up This Morning” and “Sweet Sixteen.” Annie Lennox/Dave Stewart As the hugely successful Eurythmics, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart brought an innovative sound and plenty of style to the 1980s. After “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” topped the charts in 1983, they achieved international fame, their career buoyed by follow-up hits like “Here Comes The Rain Again” and “Would I Lie To You?” The pair went on hiatus in the 1990s and pursued successful solo careers before reteaming at the end of the decade for a final studio album, Peace, featuring the hits “I Saved The World Today” and the U.S. dance chart No.

1 “17 Again.” Key songs in the Lennox/Stewart catalog include “Here Comes The Rain Again,” “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This),” “Would I Lie To You,” “Missionary Man” and “Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves.” Jeff Lynne English pop-rock luminary Jeff Lynne first found fame in The Move, then made it big on both sides of the pond as leader of the Electric Light Orchestra. With ELO, he wrote such hits as “Can’t Get It Out of My Head,” “Livin’ Thing,” “Mr. Blue Sky” and “Don’t Bring Me Down.” He later co-founded the Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, and had a writing hand in their hits “Handle With Care” and “End Of The Line;” he also wrote hits for the likes of Orbison (“You Got It”) and Petty (“I Won’t Back Down” and “Free Fallin’”). Key songs in the Lynne catalog include “Evil Woman,” “Do Ya,” “Don’t Bring Me Down,” “Mr.

Blue Sky” and “Strange Magic.” Steven Tyler/Joe Perry (p/k/a Aerosmith) Aerosmith’s frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry have collaborated on many of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s biggest hits. Songs like “Dude Looks Like A Lady” and “Love In An Elevator,” besides being big hits, were highlights of the MTV era. Their 1977 hit “Walk This Way” was covered by Run-D.M.C. in 1986 and broke the rap act into the mainstream.

Key songs in the Tyler/Perry catalog include “Dream On,” “Dude Looks Like A Lady,” “Love In An Elevator,” “Sweet Emotion” and “Walk This Way.” Steve Winwood Only 15 when he joined England’s Spencer Davis Group, Steve Winwood co-wrote and sang on that 1960s band’s hits “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m A Man.” But he left shortly thereafter to form the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group Traffic, then joined Eric Clapton in the short-lived supergroup Blind Faith—for which he wrote “Can’t Find My Way Home.” After reuniting with Traffic, he went solo and delivered such huge hits as the chart-topping compositions “Higher Love” and “Roll With It.” Key songs in the Winwood catalog include “Gimme Some Lovin’,” “Back In The High Life Again,” “Dear Mr.

Fantasy,” “Can’t Find My Way Home” and “Higher Love.” Bobby Womack Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bobby Womack’s start in music came in his family’s gospel group, which eventually evolved into The Valentinos--for whom he wrote “It’s All Over Now,” later the classic U.K. breakthrough hit for the Rolling Stones. He went on to experience a varied career as singer, songwriter and musician in all pop music genres, his compositions becoming hits for the likes of Wilson Pickett (“I’m In Love” and “I’m A Midnight Mover") as well as a classic album cut for Janis Joplin (Pearl’s ballad “Trust Me”). His self-written solo hits include “That’s The Way I Feel About ‘Cha” and “Woman’s Gotta Have It.” Key songs from the Womack catalog include “Across 110th Street,” “It’s All Over Now,” “That’s The Way I Feel About Cha,” “Breezin’” and “I’m In Love.” Recent News

Question: Which singer/songwriter was married to record producer & songwriter Tony Hatch?
Answer: Jackie Trent